One-piece blouse garment.



PATENTED MAR. 2m 1906.

J. B. PEARSON. ONE PIECE BLOUSE GARMENT.

ABPLIGATION FILED SEPT. 18.1903.

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WITHEEEEE PATENTED MAR. 27, 1906.

J. B. PEARSON. ONE PIECE BLOUSE GARMENT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 18,1903

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snITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

ONE-PIECE BLOUS'E' GARMENT.

Patented March 27,1906.

Application filed September is, 1 03." Serial No. 173,670.

To. all whom it may concern;-

Be .it known that 1, JOHN B. PEARSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Stoneham, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in One-Piece Blouse Garments, of which the following is a full, clear,

and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a .part

IO of this specification, m explaining its nature.

My invention relates to a one-piece blouse garment for children of both sexes. The utility of the one-piece garment for children needs no'special comment. By making such garment a blouse garment its efficacy is still further increased, the loose-fitting blouse giving that coolness and freedom to movement so desirable in neglige garments of this kind. Then the sightly appearance of a bloused garment is another commendation, the overhang of theblouse being adapted to conceal any buttoning or other unsightlyfastening at the waist, while the general neglige effect of a bloused garment. is most desirable.

My invention relates also to. a manner of so forming a garment of this kind that it can be conveniently taken off or put on or any part unbuttoned, as occasion may re uire. The facility'of cleansing the garment I have also considered by so making it that it will open out, so to speak, when unbuttoned, that it may be easily washed, dried, and ironed, and

this especially withreference to the blouse portion of the garment, blouses being partic-. ularly hard to wash and iron.

It is still further and especially an object of my invention to so fashion such a one-piece arment that it may be entirely supported om the shoulders. It is desirable in all garments for children, for hysiological and other reasons, to remove all stress and tightness of the garmentfrom the waist of the child and to sup ort the entire garment from the shoulders. n ablouse garment of this kind it is necessary not only to support the garment, but also to form a waistme, as it were, which effects the overhang of the blouse, and this I do without any strain or tightening whatever at the waist of the ment in elevation. Fig.2 shows the same in' back elevation. Fig. 3 shows in elevation especially the inside of the garment when the same is opened out. Fig. 4 shows in elevatlon a slightly-modified structure of garment to which reference will hereinafter be made. Fig. 5 shows in elevation a portion of the garment shown in Fig. 4, but otherwise arranged to which special reference will hereinafter be made.

In the drawings, A A represent, respectively, the blouse and pants portions of the The blouse A is cut full and gathered at the waist-line, which is reinforced by a waistband a, over which the garment made in one piece.

blouse is madeto overhang. The blouse opens up and down in the back, where it is Iormed with edges 0. (H, which overlap and button or are otherwise fastened to open. Instead of being made continuous with the pants, as in the front of the garment, the blouse in the back when buttoned is made to extend below the waist or the waistband a by the length of the portion a, (see Fig. 2-,) while the trousers in the'back are provided with a flap a which turns up over this extended portion a of the blouse and buttons onto the waistband a.

Upon the inside of the garment, concealed, are straps B, which are attachedto the shoulders at the points I) and are adapted to pass down, when the garment is on, forward and back over the shoulders of the wearer and are secured in front and at the back to the waistor taken off or unbuttoned in part, as by the unbuttoning of the flap a of the pants. In casethis flap were left partially or even wholly unbuttoned the body of the wearer? would still be covered and protected by the extension a of the blouse in the back, which,

as said before, extends down for some little distance below'the waist-line and which covering at thispoint would be supplemented by the overhang of the blouse. Such opening of the garment also facilitates its cleansm It-can be easily washed, dried, and irone the entire blouse being spread out, so as to present but a single thickness. (See Fig. 3.)

By the use of the concealed straps B, am enabled to support the entire garment from the shoulders. As said before, in a garment of this kind it is necessary to form a Waist- IIO line, so causing the overhangoi the blouse,

and l: are. enabled by the use oi these straps to form'the Waist-line and at the same time support the pants Without the least tightening or stress at the Waist'of the child. Moreover; by this means of support the garment is made cool and comfortable, effects so desirable in a garment of this kind and which could not be obtained if the garment" were made to hug tight at the Waist.

. In Fi 4: l have shown slightly-modified form of frment in the fact that a belt'G is WOID at the Waist of the garment for gathering in the sarmentat tl'lis point. I prefer,

-hmvev' er, as Was befor described, to permanently gather the eX fullness of the blouse L 4-1 a .9 .w

to a wtlstoand, or clng the garment at tors point button garment can be made ungathered and any necessary gathering sufficient to hold the garment in proper place or ht obtained b" a belt. Moreover in so far as the scope or my invention is concerned looked; at n its broader significance, a belt might be used With the one-piece blouse garment as a means for supporting the trousers and forming a Waist-line, so causing the overhang of the blouse. For all this, when a belt is used I prefer to employ it'merely as a. means for" holding the garment gathered and not as a necessary support, this stress being borne b the shoulder-stra s B, which are used at the same time vvith t e belt. With a belt thus made to gather in the garment it c the same time be used hold the 0v .iang

flap of the garment in place. ll. is show for'this purpose it Figs. 4 and 5 e lain straps loops (some designated 0 am the Waist of the garment upon the overhang of the blouse. loops or straps the belt is passed.

e inside of .rou h these W hen the garment is stretched out with the overhang of the blouse then unforrned, these loops or straps Would come on different lines, as shown in Fig. 4:; but When the overhang of areas"? the blo is formed the loops edge teena turned over home a. ment with the loops 0 at the Waist or the garmentyand the belt being passed. thr' uvh' these res eotiveloo. s holds the overhang or v J the blouse in place.

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combined, concealed straps on theinside of the blouse, the same being securedto-the shoulders of the-blouse and extending down forward and back and attached to th'etwa'ist of the garment for imparting the blouse effect thereto, which blouse and pants are open in the back, the blouse by. a vertical opening and the pants by a flap adapted to be let down, the blouse in the back also being providedlwith a portion extending below the Waist-line and over which said flap of the nantsis adapted to extend and be attached to the aist. of the arm'ent underneaththe ofi fastening.

2. in a on'ep1ece blouse garment oi -the character specified, a belt at the Waist there-- of, straps or loops attached to the waist of -garn1e nt andalso to the inside of the overthers c) at sang of theblouse thereof, throu h which loops or straps said belt is. adapted to pass, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

. JOHN B-PEARSON. Witnesses:

J. E. Hayes, M. "V. Former.

fold of the blouse W ioh conceals the means i 

